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Castle Quay Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in the town of Banbury, North Oxfordshire, England. The shopping centre is located in the centre of Banbury by the Oxford Canal, off Castle Street. [2] Banbury Museum [3] [4] and Tooley's Boatyard [5] are also located here. [6] Close by is Spiceball Park. The museum is accessible over a bridge ...
St John the Evangelist Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. It was built from 1835 to 1838 in the Gothic Revival style with parts of it designed by Augustus Pugin. It is located on the corner of South Bar Street and Dashwood Road south of the town centre. It is a Grade II listed building. [3]
St George's Hall and the organ sustained extensive bomb damage from air raids in September 1940, May 1941 and March 1943, and the BBC studios were moved to the Aeolian Hall in New Bond Street. To replace the organ, Foort offered to loan the BBC his "Travelling Moller", a large scale organ designed to be moved for performances in different venues.
The Organist Entertains was a long-running music programme broadcast on BBC Radio 2.The 30 minute programme focused on the organ in its many guises, and played recordings and live broadcasts of theatre organs, pipe organs and electronic organs around the United Kingdom and the rest of the world.
The International Organ Festival (IOF) is a biennial music festival and organ competition held in St Albans, England since 1963. Originally held annually, it was changed to every two years in 1965 due to the complexity of organising the increasingly ambitious programme. The festival is run mainly by volunteers.
Banbury Museum & Gallery is a local museum in the town of Banbury, north Oxfordshire, England. [2] The museum is located in the centre of Banbury by the Oxford Canal. Its displays present the history of the town. [3] They include the English Civil War, Banbury as a market town in Victorian times, the Oxford Canal, and Tooley's Boatyard next to ...
In the 17th and 18th centuries, pedalboards were rare in England. A critic for the New York Times in 1895 argued that this may explain why Handel's published organ works are generally lighter-sounding than those of J.S. Bach. [6] In the 17th and 18th centuries, the pedal part of organ music was rarely given its own staff. Instead, the organ ...
Aynho (/ ˈ eɪ n h oʊ /, formerly spelt Aynhoe) is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, on the edge of the Cherwell valley 6 miles (9.7 km) south-east of the north Oxfordshire town of Banbury [3] and 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Brackley.